Stefan Tiron
@tironstefan.bsky.social
Scheerbartian central planner//ostblock SF shlock theory//pluriverse//sinophile//
Fugitive exo-curator, eco horror actor & theory fiction writer.
Fugitive exo-curator, eco horror actor & theory fiction writer.
Hope those workers were payed royally, more likely this reflects the 1 trillion fat cat pay package.
www.reuters.com/world/live-t...
www.reuters.com/world/live-t...
Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay package - as it happened
It is the largest corporate pay package in history.
www.reuters.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Hope those workers were payed royally, more likely this reflects the 1 trillion fat cat pay package.
www.reuters.com/world/live-t...
www.reuters.com/world/live-t...
A few examples.
www.techwontsave.us/episode/304_...
www.techwontsave.us/episode/304_...
Data Centers Are a Climate Enemy w/ Ketan Joshi - Tech Won’t Save Us
www.techwontsave.us
December 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
A few examples.
www.techwontsave.us/episode/304_...
www.techwontsave.us/episode/304_...
Best of Podcasts
www.the-syllabus.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
One should also add England and Holland go that map, to feel why it's such a slanted picture of why 19th and 20th century were the aberrantion. It took 30-40 years so that India and Indonesia finally = UK and Holland, two incomparable smaller contenders. Things had to change to reflect reality.
December 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
One should also add England and Holland go that map, to feel why it's such a slanted picture of why 19th and 20th century were the aberrantion. It took 30-40 years so that India and Indonesia finally = UK and Holland, two incomparable smaller contenders. Things had to change to reflect reality.
That instead of lamenting the good old WWII consensus & expect some Marshall Plan.
December 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
That instead of lamenting the good old WWII consensus & expect some Marshall Plan.
"To avoid this fate, Europe must seek to make itself minimally vulnerable to US pressure that will not stop coming. It is time for a European policy plan for EU-US decoupling with steps to minimise the harm MAGA America is able to inflict on Europe"
ht @martinsandbu.ft.com www.ft.com/content/89f1...
ht @martinsandbu.ft.com www.ft.com/content/89f1...
Europe needs a plan for decoupling from America
The EU must make itself minimally vulnerable to inevitable US pressure
www.ft.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"To avoid this fate, Europe must seek to make itself minimally vulnerable to US pressure that will not stop coming. It is time for a European policy plan for EU-US decoupling with steps to minimise the harm MAGA America is able to inflict on Europe"
ht @martinsandbu.ft.com www.ft.com/content/89f1...
ht @martinsandbu.ft.com www.ft.com/content/89f1...
Made a few additions to my #review of #Palantir founder Alex Karp documetary.
Captains of industry becoming army captains.
letterboxd.com/tironstefan/...
Captains of industry becoming army captains.
letterboxd.com/tironstefan/...
A ★★ review of Watching You: The World of Palantir and Alex Karp (2024)
I was looking forward to watching this German documentary, since there are currently very few docs about the current privatization of the US military/Pentagon, outsourcing it to the likes of companies...
letterboxd.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
That said as long a the world's fortunes hang less on what's being decided in those circles. Like in Neville's excellent Eminent Domain, US shuttering off might be the best for all.
December 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
That said as long a the world's fortunes hang less on what's being decided in those circles. Like in Neville's excellent Eminent Domain, US shuttering off might be the best for all.
It's really clear bad ideas need sponsors even if technocapitalism seems 'naturally' primed for them.
December 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
It's really clear bad ideas need sponsors even if technocapitalism seems 'naturally' primed for them.
Reposted by Stefan Tiron
@patrickmccray.bsky.social's literary history of computers, "README," explains the essential role that the oldest literary technology—books—played in making computers popular and pervasive: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
December 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
@patrickmccray.bsky.social's literary history of computers, "README," explains the essential role that the oldest literary technology—books—played in making computers popular and pervasive: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...